All this visit did was to give some of the former prisoners of war a platform from which to publicise their special grievance, reopen old wounds and so scrape away the relatively benign views each country generally holds about the other to reveal the older and less benign ones below.

ECONOMIST: Don��t mention the war

To remove them, doctors slide sheaths over the wires and scrape the scar tissue away, freeing the lead.

WSJ: Agonizing Choices for Heart Patients

Cuts and razor burn are all part of the raw deal as they scrape their faces up to 700 times per shave, chopping away 27 feet (8.2 metres) of hair over a lifetime.

ECONOMIST: Skinned alive

Most people would rather not scrape by on a nutritional bare minimum, especially if cancer or a car accident could come and steal it all away in an instant.

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